In 1913, Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore became India's first Nobel laureate in literature.
Thereafter literature in various dialects of Hindi, Persian and Urdu began to appear as well. Later, literature in Marathi, Gujarati, Assamese, Odia, Bengali and Maithili appeared. Classical Sanskrit literature developed rapidly during the first few centuries of the first millennium BCE, as did the Tamil Sangam literature, and the Pāli Canon.In the medieval period, literature in Kannada and Telugu appeared in the 6th and 11th centuries respectively. The Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata were subsequently codified and appeared towards the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. Sanskrit literature begins with the oral literature of the Rig Veda a collection of literature dating to the period 1500–1200 BCE. The earliest works of Indian literature were orally transmitted. The Republic of India has 22 officially recognised languages. Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( December 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve this article if you can. The specific problem is: Vaguely discursive prose without significant analysis or commentary, Cryptic references. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
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